SOCIAL BOOKMARKING Social bookmarking is a method for Internet users to store, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of web pages on the Internet with the help of metadata, typically in the form of tags that collectively and/or collaboratively become a folksonomy. Folksonomy is also called social tagging, "the process by which many users add metadata in the form of keywords to shared content".[1] Social Bookmarking in Plain English Video SOCIAL BOOKMARKING IN EDUCATION Grade-level teacher teams can collaboratively find and share resources, student project teams can work together to locate sites needed for their assignment, and the collective work of thousands of other individuals using the same network of bookmarks can also be of assistance.
Network with other educators around the globe who share your interests.
Create social bookmark accounts for your school's academic departments. Teachers within the department all contribute to the growing database of web resources.
Contact other people for professional networking, based on their social bookmarks.
Allow yourself and your students to share bookmarks on research topics.
Subscribe to someone's bookmarks via RSS and receive updates whenever they add new websites.
Collaborate on projects with other schools, sharing bookmarks between all participating communities.
ยทGives students a live link to select instead of fumbling through typing a long URL into the address bar.
Lets students choose from a variety of acceptable links, making for productive research that still allows for variability.
Social bookmarking is a method for Internet users to store, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of web pages on the Internet with the help of metadata, typically in the form of tags that collectively and/or collaboratively become a folksonomy. Folksonomy is also called social tagging, "the process by which many users add metadata in the form of keywords to shared content".[1]
Social Bookmarking in Plain English Video
SOCIAL BOOKMARKING IN EDUCATION
Grade-level teacher teams can collaboratively find and share resources, student project teams can work together to locate sites needed for their assignment, and the collective work of thousands of other individuals using the same network of bookmarks can also be of assistance.
- Network with other educators around the globe who share your interests.
- Create social bookmark accounts for your school's academic departments. Teachers within the department all contribute to the growing database of web resources.
- Contact other people for professional networking, based on their social bookmarks.
- Allow yourself and your students to share bookmarks on research topics.
- Subscribe to someone's bookmarks via RSS and receive updates whenever they add new websites.
- Collaborate on projects with other schools, sharing bookmarks between all participating communities.
ยท Gives students a live link to select instead of fumbling through typing a long URL into the address bar.- Lets students choose from a variety of acceptable links, making for productive research that still allows for variability.
Top 20 Most Popular Social Bookmarking WebsitesEducation Worlds Social Bookmarks
Educators Using Social Bookmarking Sites
Preservice Teachers
Elementary Teachers
Secondary Teachers
Administrators
Educational Technology Geeks
Higher Education
Guides To Social Bookmarking Tools
These guides will get you started, as well as provide a few more ideas around social bookmarking uses in education.
Screencasts
Screenrecording Of How to Use Deli.icio.us from Teaching Hacks Del.icio.us Video
Jon Udell demonstrates Del.icio.us Del.icio.us Screencast
Screenrecording Of How to Use Furl from New Media WorkshopsFurl Video
Guides
Simply Del.icio.us! by David Muir Del.Icio.us Guide
Furl Furled Furling by Jim Wenzloff Furl Guide
David Warlick's Del.icio.us Guide
Del.icio.us Basics Us.ef.ul:A beginner's guide to The Next Big Thing
SOCIAL BOOKMARKING RESOURCES
Scuttledu K-12 Educators
Connotea Higher Education
CiteuLike Higher Education
Edtags.org General Education
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Views
Many2Many-news, research, speculation, etc. on social networking,
Rebecca's FURL Archive for Social Software,
Wikipedia on Social Bookmarking,
The Online Social Networking Conference 2005,
A Feedster search for "social bookmarking"
A Technorati search for "social bookmarking"
"Toward a Literacy of Cooperation":
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